Global Transformation with BlockChain: From Lab to App

Date: November 16, 2018, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm

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MISSION

The rise of blockchain has attracted the attention of academia, industry, and government and state agencies. As of 2018, over 1500 startup companies and corporations are working on blockchain solutions in different sectors such as finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and healthcare, etc. Despite its transformative potential, blockchain technology is yet to become mainstream. This is in part because the development and adoption of blockchains desire involvement from both developers and researchers with established experience in cryptography, security, and the theory of distributed systems. In addition, there are several challenges in blockchain research such as scalability and interoperability. Different challenges will also arise when deploying in different applications.

This workshop will discuss Blockchain technology research and development challenges by involving efforts from academia, industry, and government and state agencies. Specifically, it will have the following goals:

Provide a comprehensive overview of the state of the art blockchain technologies

Bring together various stakeholders in academia, industry, government and state agencies, and non-profit organizations, to share their experience in research and deployment challenges and opportunities;

Leverage the opportunity to foster inter-agency collaborations on blockchain research and adoption

Discuss the challenges and opportunities of deploying blockchains in different sectors such as food safety, IoT, and healthcare.

This workshop will offer a comprehensive view of both permissionless and permissioned blockchain technologies to participants with different expertise levels. In addition, it will summarize the blockchain research challenges and future directions, as well as recommendations for blockchain adoption and development.

The workshop is organized by NSF CARTA Center, US Department of Commerce National Technical Information Service (NTIS) and US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T). Our workshop is sponsored by NSF.